Postby sspencer » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:36 am
Thanks for posting up the pic' Bruce! It is hard to believe that was nearly 16 years ago!!!
Here are some facts surrounding the photo:
- Location: Norco/Snipes track in Corona, CA. The track is downhill and the first turn was LONG and FAST. It lead to the jump we were hitting in the second straight (a 25' long table wih a step down landing).
- Who was there? Tim "Fuzzy" Hall, Chris "Mad Dog" Moeller (owner of S&M Bikes), Eddie Buckley and Spike Jonze.
- Gork (the editor of BMX Action magazine at the time, now the BMX big wig at Redline bicycles) asked me if I wanted to be the "model". I was stoked.
- The photgrapher was Spike Jonze. For those of you not in the know, Spike is BIG TIME now. He has directed the Beastie Boys "Sabotage" and Weezer's "Just Like Buddy Holly" videos, directed and acted in a few movies ("Being John Malkovich" , "Three Kings", "Adaptation", "JackAss"). He is also married to director Sofia Coppola (daughter of the famous director/producer Francis Ford Coppola)
- We were jumping over Spike and he was holding his camera up in the air underneath us taking the shots. I was probably 8 to 9 feet in the air in the shot.
Thanks for the memories!
Steve